Fantasy Football Tips – Saturday January 9th

Every day we bring you what we think are some sensible selection options based on today’s upcoming matches; we’re not going to promise that these are guaranteed winners because if we could do that we’d all be millionaires by now. These players are all solid picks based on recent stats and their next opponents so check them out.

It’s an FA Cup weekend so following Exeter City vs Liverpool on Friday evening there are a number of fixtures on Saturday; we’re entering Mondogoal’s FA Cup Freeroll which features the following games:

Arsenal vs Sunderland

Doncaster Rovers vs Stoke City

Eastleigh vs Bolton Wanderers

Manchester United vs Sheffield United

Wycombe Wanderers vs Aston Villa

Our Pick (3-4-3)

Goalkeeper

David de Gea

Manchester United

£7.8m

Defender

Chris Smalling

Manchester United

£7.8m

Defender

Kieran Gibbs

Arsenal

£7.3m

Defender

Glen Johnson

Stoke City

£8.2m

Midfielder

Xherdan Shaqiri

Stoke City

£7.0m

Midfielder

Mesut Ozil

Arsenal

£15.1m

Midfielder

Aaron Ramsey

Arsenal

£11.6m

Midfielder

Juan Mata

Manchester United

£9.7m

Forward

Marko Arnautovic

Stoke City

£6.9m

Forward

Olivier Giroud

Arsenal

£10.6m

Forward

Wayne Rooney

Manchester United

£7.0m

Total Price – £97,800,000

Defence

There look to be three shoe-ins for victory on Saturday for Arsenal, Stoke City and Manchester United and so our team is entirely based there. In defence we have United’s David de Gea in goal behind Chris Smalling (Man United), Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal) and Glen Johnson (Stoke City).

Midfield

Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil and Aaron Ramsey occupy two of the midfield spots and they are accompanied by Stoke City’s Zherdan Shaqiri and United’s Juan Mata. We’re slightly reliant on team selections going our way here especially in the cases of Mata and Ramsey.

Forwards

Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud is (hopefully) our banker up front and we’re hoping Wayne Rooney can recover some form against Sheffield United. Stoke City’s Marko Arnautovic has been a reliable points score in recent weeks and should grab some more against Doncaster Rovers.